By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-13 19:22:18 | Updated at 2026-10-16 14:03:45
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GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman told Harry Styles to take the accused Bronx gangbanger shot by ICE on tour — after the pop star offered the illegal immigrant support at a recent New York show.
“I think Harry Styles should put that guy on his tour bus and tour around the country with this guy, who is a convicted criminal,” Blakeman quipped during an appearance FOX on News Tuesday.
“He is alleged to have gang activity, he’s alleged to be involved in drug dealing poison to our children. This is who he wants in our communities?” Blakeman added, referring to illegal immigrant Oscar Belgal.
Belgal, 28, was shot and wounded in the neck by ICE officers as he tried to flee arrest in a car Thursday.
The Dominican native is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, and admitted to committing a 2023 armed robbery and was accused two years later of dealing dangerous drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
Neighbors at his old Washington Heights apartment building also described him as a frightening figure who once threatened somebody in the building with a machete, while he was alleged to have ties to the bloodthirsty Trinitarios street gang.
Despite that alarming history, politicians including Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his leftists pals called on Belgal’s release and demanded the abolishment of ICE – with the likes of Styles taking up the call.
“I just want us to take a moment to think about Oscar Belgal tonight,” Styles recently said at Madison Square Garden, where he’s in the midst of a residency tour. “The people who don’t look like you and aren’t born where you’re from, they deserve respect, and love, and dignity, and justice.”
Blakeman wasn’t buying it.
“This is who he sticks up for, rather than federal agents who just want to do their job?” the gubernatorial hopeful said.
